AW: critiques of sacrifice

[Axel Michaels]

Anguttaranikaya IV 39 is a locus classicus for the critique of the Buddha on sacrifices
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Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels
Acting Director Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Sprecher des SFB 619 ("Ritualdynamik")

Universität Heidelberg, Südasien-Institut, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, D-69120 Heidelberg
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Von: Finnian Moore Gerety <fmgerety at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
An: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Gesendet: Montag, den 19. April 2010, 21:39:11 Uhr
Betreff: critiques of sacrifice

Dear List--
Can anyone recommend primary or secondary literature on critiques of Vedic
sacrifice and orthopraxy? I am interested in Buddhist & Jain critiques as
well as those from within the Brahmanic fold.

Thanks

Finnian Moore Gerety

doctoral student, Dept. of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University